Books to Teach Comprehension
Metacognition – tracking your thinking
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o Time Flies - Eric Rohmann
o Trainstop - Barbara Lehman
o Rainstorm - Barbara Lehman
o Pancakes for Breakfast - Tomie dePaola
o The Knight and the Dragon - Tomie dePaola
o Flotsam - David Wiesner
o Tuesday - David Wiesner
o FreeFall - David Wiesner
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Henry’s Freedom Box - Ellen Levine and Kadir NelsonWilma
Unlimited - Kathleen Krull
How Many Days to America? - Eve Bunting
Train to Somewhere - Eve Bunting
Mighty Jackie: The Strike-Out Queen - Melissa Moss
Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates - Jonah Winter
America’s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle - David Alder
Every Living Thing - Cynthia Rylant (book of short stories)
Gleam and Glow - Eve Bunting
Snowflake Bentley - Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Connections
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Oliver Button is a Sissy - Tomie dePaolaAmazing
Grace - Mary Hoffman
The Relatives Came - Cynthia Rylant
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Judith Voirst
My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother - Patricia Polacco
The Wall - Eve Bunting
Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez - Kathleen Krull
Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Doreen Rappaport
My Brother Martin - Christine King Farris
Teammates - Peter Golenbo
Questioning
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Fly Away Home - Eve Bunting
The Royal Bee - Frances and Ginger Park
The Keeping Quilt - Patricia Polacco
Charlie Anderson - Barabara Abercrombie
Brave Irene - William Steig
Amelia’s Road - Linda Allman
Baseball Saved Us - Ken Mochizuki
Cheyenne Again - Eve Bunting
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick - Chris Van Allsburg
Visualizing
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A Chair For My Mother - Vera B. Williams
The Salamander Room - Anne Mazer
The Seashore Book - Charlotte Zolotow
Fireflies - Julie Brinckloe
Charlotte’s Web (chapter 3) - E.B. White
The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
Inferring/Predicting
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Tight Times - Barbara Shook Hazen
A Day’s Work - Eve Bunting
Two Bad Ants - Chris Van Allsburg
Fables - Arnold Lobel
Anansi and the Moss Covered Rock - Eric Kimmel
The Stranger - Chris Van Allsberg
Owen - Kevin Henkes
Synthesis
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The Other Side - Jacqueline Woodson
Freedom Summer - Deborah Wiles
Follow the Drinking Gourd - Jeanette Winter
Miss Rumphius - Barbara Cooney
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers - Mordicai Gerstein
Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman - Louise Borden
(wordless picture books:)
Time Flies - Eric Rohmann
Trainstop - Barbara Lehman
Rainstorm - Barbara Lehman
Pancakes for Breakfast - Tomie dePaola
The Knight and the Dragon - Tomie dePaola
Flotsam - David Wiesner
Tuesday - David Wiesner
FreeFall - David Wiesner
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Henry’s Freedom Box - Ellen Levine and Kadir NelsonWilma
Unlimited - Kathleen Krull
How Many Days to America? - Eve Bunting
Train to Somewhere - Eve Bunting
Mighty Jackie: The Strike-Out Queen - Melissa Moss
Roberto Clemente: Pride of the Pittsburgh Pirates - Jonah Winter
America’s Champion Swimmer: Gertrude Ederle - David Alder
Every Living Thing - Cynthia Rylant (book of short stories)
Gleam and Glow - Eve Bunting
Snowflake Bentley - Jacqueline Briggs Martin
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